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Francis Ford Coppola Sues Variety Over ‘Megalopolis’ On-Set Behavior Article After Extra Takes Director To Court In Georgia


Francis Ford Coppola Sues Variety For $15M Over Megalopolis Article Alleging Unprofessional Behavior By Director

On July 30, four days after Variety’s original article, Deadline published a piece with another extra from the movie who said the claims that Coppola misbehaved during production were untrue. In an interview for a Variety story published on August 2, Pagone detailed what she claimed occurred during certain nightclub scenes on the Atlanta production of Megalopolis. Pagone states that she was “shocked and confused” by the director hugging and kissing her and touching “plaintiff’s butt without her consent” during the shooting of a bawdy nightclub scene for the film

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